Word: playing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard rock, but also because it's a winning fusion of loud music and intelligence. This is music that bounces like a gangsta rapper's lowrider, snarls like Nine Inch Nails, and yet speaks out on issues with insurgent eloquence. In the early '90s, bands like Nirvana played loud, punkish music that thoughtfully expressed their alienation. Today, novelty acts like Blink 182 play loud, dumb music proudly, and the gap between the volume of the music and the emptiness of the lyrics only increases the sense of inanity. Also, a good deal of the latest heavy rock asserts itself...
...eighth. First was Italian stage actress Eleanora Duse, whose portrait ran on the July 30, 1923, issue. The cover story, a little over one column long (not unusual in those days), noted, "She preferred to make entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor...
...same vein, finding money to start a business isn't as simple anymore as just going to the bank. Venture capitalists have a greater role to play, and their demands are different. Michael Heller, chairman of the emerging-business and venture-capital group at Cozen and O'Connor, a Philadelphia law firm, says he gets 10 to 12 calls a month from start-up companies. According to Heller, venture capitalists also bring sophisticated knowledge and business contacts to help young entrepreneurs who may not have much business experience. But the price might include more restrictions on the emerging company...
Michael Mann says he wanted Crowe to play the pudgy 53-year-old biochemist at the heart of The Insider--age didn't matter. At the time, Crowe was 34 and in fighting trim from playing ice hockey for the film Mystery, Alaska. But Mann had an inkling that Crowe could connect with the whistle blower Wigand at his most depressed and paranoid, when the tobacco industry was trying to smear him, when his marriage was failing, when he was drinking and eating too much. Crowe, without even meeting Wigand, nailed the part in a single reading, says Mann...
...unless you get to the World Series, a good year is completely obliterated. Two years from now, you ask who the hell was in post-season play, and nobody knows unless they were in the Series...